Late May usually is a hot time down in Big Bend country, but an active southern-stream pattern that flooded much of the southern Plains kept the southwest Texas deserts well-soaked also. The back side of one of the responsible storm clusters sliced the sky with this lightning bolt, after its other end ran us off the Rio Grande.
26 ESE Terlingua TX (21 May 15) Looking S
29.2651, -103.1247Big Bend Discharge
Late May usually is a hot time down in Big Bend country, but an active southern-stream pattern that flooded much of the southern Plains kept the southwest Texas deserts well-soaked also. The back side of one of the responsible storm clusters sliced the sky with this lightning bolt, after its other end ran us off the Rio Grande.
26 ESE Terlingua TX (21 May 15) Looking S
29.2651, -103.1247